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Advogato blog for dsandrasen-usmod_virguleTue, 3 Mar 2015 18:50:03 GMTMon, 7 Feb 2005 22:12:38 GMT7 Feb 2005http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=46
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=46I have moved my blog to <a href="http" ://www.seconix.com>http://www.seconix.com</a> to allow more flexibility. Goodbye Advogato and thanks!Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:26:00 GMT11 Jan 2005http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=45
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=45<b>GnomeMeeting</b>
<blockquote>I have coded all the holidays on OPAL to improve SIP support and fix various problems. I have almost finished adding support for RFC3842 (Message Waiting Indication when you receive a Voicemail). I'm testing this with Asterisk, but unfortunately it is not always compliant. I have also added the ability to use several registrars at the same time. Those 2 new features do not exist yet in any SIP softphone under Linux.</blockquote>
<blockquote>I'll be speaking in Geilenkirchen at the <a href="http" ://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/telephony-summit-2005/conference.html>Open Source Telephony Summit</a> this week end. I hope the summit will be a good opportunity to progress on OPAL and on GnomeMeeting SIP. I also need to submit a GUADEC paper in time...</blockquote>
<b>FOSDEM</b>
<blockquote>We have finally received the bios and pics for all speakers, we will start working on the definitive schedule soon. Don't forget that there is a GNOME developers' room with a specific schedule this year, so if you want to present a talk, it is not too late yet</blockquote>
<b>Life</b>
<blockquote>Is there a life besides adding SIP support in GnomeMeeting?</blockquote>Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:50:13 GMT19 Dec 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=44
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=44<b>GnomeMeeting 1.2</b>
<blockquote>The release went successfully and we got very few bug reports regarding the number of downloads. We will probably make a 1.2.1 release in a few days/weeks with better IPv6 support as there were a few problems.</blockquote>
<p> <b>GnomeMeeting SIP</b>
<blockquote>Things are getting along nicely. I just finished implementing Call Forwarding in SIP and fixing a few problems in OPAL. I'm now spending most of my time on OPAL and not on GnomeMeeting, GnomeMeeting being only a way to test my changes. There are still many things left to do, but I'm progressing quickly. Having SIP support in GnomeMeeting is really exciting.</blockquote>
<p> <b>Life</b>
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Nothing new here. Jonita is working all the time, so we don't have much time to spend together. Hopefully things will be better in January.
</blockquote>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:26:04 GMT12 Dec 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=43
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=43Finally! GnomeMeeting 1.2 has been released with ZeroConf support and Evolution integration. There are several other features that can be checked <a href="http" ://www.gnomemeeting.org>on the main website</a>.<br><br> I can now concentrate full-time on the 2.00 branch that will support SIP as main protocol.Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:27:20 GMT15 Nov 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=42
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=42<b>GnomeMeeting and Zeroconf</b>
<blockquote>I received a patch that implements ZeroConf support into GnomeMeeting. It has been applied and will be available in the 1.2 release. That is very convenient to discover GnomeMeeting friends on your network. That was an interesting idea given by Alex <a href="http" ://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2004_July18-July24.html>here</a>. I'm happy to see it was so fast to implement it.</blockquote>
<p> <b>GnomeMeeting and GAIM integration</b>
<blockquote>Several people have showed an interest to see GnomeMeeting integrated with popular instant messengers. Julien Puydt had started coding a DBUS component for GnomeMeeting and that component will be available in the 1.2 release. He had also started creating a plugin for GAIM, so that GAIM Linux users can start videoconferences from their Instant Messenger. He tried to get help from GAIM developers, discussed with them and their answer was clear, they are not interested in that plugin and won't support it. &lt;irony&gt;Nice example of cooperation.&lt;/irony&gt; That would have been great even if it wouldn't have been compatible with Windows clients, at least as long as GnomeMeeting doesn't support SIP.</blockquote>
<p> <b>GnomeMeeting and SIP</b>
<blockquote>It's progressing!</blockquote>
<p> <b>Life</b>
<blockquote>I had two superb evenings last week with two of my best friends. We had two days off so we decided to spend the evenings together and it was really fun. The bad side is that it remembered me the time when I was still a student, unfortunately that will never happen again...</blockquote>Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:13:05 GMT8 Nov 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=41
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=41My birthday is coming, another nice opportunity to feel old. I think that once you leave university, time is flying away. I have two spare days on Thursday and Friday, I will unusually spend the evenings with two of my best friends instead of spending them coding on GnomeMeeting. That won't prevent me from coding the rest of the day.<br><br>
I'm currently spending half of my time on OPAL, and the rest on GnomeMeeting itself. I have fixed a bug particularly hard to find this week-end and I was able to get my first SIP call today with GnomeMeeting. I'm also working on GnomeMeeting 1.2. It has been ready for a long time, but I will need to work on the manual and FAQ now, and integrate a new patch for ZeroConf integration. Imagine being in a meeting and being able to detect the GnomeMeeting users in your neighbourhood, that will be possible thanks to two french hackers who contributed a patch.<br><br>
Julien has also contributed DBUS support to GnomeMeeting and has started working on a plugin for GAIM. That should allow total audio/video interaction with MSN Messenger in the near future, but it is also a nice new feature allowing to start videoconferences for GAIM users communicating with other GAIM users. However, the GAIM developers don't seem motivated at all to help him progressing.<br><br>
Congrats to Novell for the release!Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:25:28 GMT24 Oct 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=40
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=40<b>Life</b>
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Nothing new. A bit tired due to the amount of work. Spent a superb evening with my university friends on Wednesday during the "24 heures of Louvain-La-Neuve". I'm in a period of doubt concerning GnomeMeeting. Should I continue or should I spend my spare time on something else?
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<p> <b>GnomeMeeting</b>
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Release 1.2 with Evolution-Data-Server support is ready. There are still a few bugs to fix, but the code and strings will soon be frozen. I think an official release could be ready around my birthday, mid-November.
I started porting it to OPAL for SIP support, that is like writing a new GnomeMeeting. Is it worth it? I don't know, but I'll do it.
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<p> <b>FOSDEM</b>
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The schedule is nearly done, the hotel for speakers has been booked, contacts have been taken again with Linux Magazines... That will be the 5th FOSDEM edition if I remember correctly.
</blockquote>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:15:19 GMT23 Sep 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=39
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=39<b>Life</b>
<blockquote>I have not blogged since a long time. It seems it has become a regular habit, but I will try to change that. There are many reasons to it, among others too few spare time. I went on holiday with Jonita in July, near Naples (Italy), it was very nice and I enjoyed it much. We are slowly preparing our wedding which will take place next year, and that's a lot of work. Actually, we have been together since 7 years (in one week).</blockquote>
<p> <b>Skype</b>
<blockquote>More and more people talk about Skype. I agree their software is easy when it comes to firewall, but it is using a non-standard protocol and it is proprietary. That's funny to see how people accept to be emprisoned into a proprietary protocol, preventing communication with other software, for a software whose job is to ease communication. I think that's a big problem, especially when you see the quality of
protocols like H.323, or SIP.</blockquote>
<p> <b>GnomeMeeting</b>
<blockquote>Preparing things for the 1.2 release which could not be ready in time for the GNOME 2.8 release. That release will have many internal code changes,as I wanted to prepare the way for the future SIP integration. I think the release should be ready in maximum one month if we don't drop
ILS yet. After the release, I will invest all my efforts on GnomeMeeting and Opal hacking to get SIP ready and as much usable as H.323 currently is in GnomeMeeting. A few features could be missing though, but I think it could be pretty exciting if GnomeMeeting was the first Open Source software to support the 2 major standard protocols for VoIP, IP telephony and videoconferencing.</blockquote>Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:48:28 GMT4 Jul 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=38
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=38<p><strong>GnomeMeeting 1.2, and ffmpeg</strong><p>
There were initial plans to have video codecs support in OpenH323, those plans have been cancelled for now. That leaves 2 choices for GnomeMeeting :<p>
* either we keep specific H.263 ffmpeg calls in GnomeMeeting's code and users have the possibility to use the (very good) H.263 codec<p>
* we simply remove that code<p>
In the first situation, we are taking the risk to have legal problems as we would be offering a direct way to use patented and thus possibly illegal code from GnomeMeeting. Having plugins would solve that problem, even if it would still be possible for users to use patented codecs. However, we wouldn't provide a direct way to do it. All this resulted in an interesting discussion (read: a flame), and I decided to take no risk and have no H.263 support for now.<p>
<strong>Libre Software Meeting</strong><p>
I will be talking at the <a href="http://www.rencontresmondiales.org" >Libre Software Meeting</a> in Bordeaux on Wednesday. They are announcing rain. Every time I'm going to a supposedly sunny place for a conference, I get rain instead (my last experience was GUADEC 2002 in Sevilla).<p>
<strong>Holidays</strong><p>
I'm going to Naples with Jonita next week. It will be short, but extremely good for both of us as we have worked a lot recently and simply need some rest.Sat, 15 May 2004 10:05:05 GMT15 May 2004http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=37
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=37<b>Interview</b>
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I was interviewed earlier this week for my work on GnomeMeeting by the national radio in Finland thanks to Johnny Ström from <a href="http" ://www.linuxvaasa.com>Linuxvaasa.com</a>. Of course, the interview was conducted using GnomeMeeting. Johnny told me they were pretty impressed by the product. It was fun!
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<b>GnomeMeeting</b>
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I have worked this week on codec plugins for GnomeMeeting. All codecs are now plugins... That's the continuation of Craig and Julien's work on plugins for devices.